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PROFESSOR LOUIS DE LA VALLEE POUSSIN, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.-I believe that the book is well designed and has the twofold merit of collecting a vast amount (and in some chapters, an exhaustive one) of references, and of giving a clear and reasonable expose of the main line of this history. I agree with the author on several controverted points of chronology.
Mrs. C. A. F. RHYS DAVIDS.-Dr. Chaudhuri has made debtors of us all.
S. M. EDWARDES (The Indian Antiquary, July, 1927. p. 140).-Professor Raychaudhuri's book forms a solid contribution to the discussion of the various problems implicit in the early history of India.
PROFESSOR E. J. RAPSON, CAMBRIDGE.- My best thanks for the kind present of a copy of the Political History of Ancient India," which I am very glad to possess and which I shall find most useful for reference.
PROFESSOR STEN Konow, NORWAY.-The book is a very useful contribution.
DR. V. S. SUKTHANKAR.-I have to refer to it very often, both for corroboration of historical facts of the epic and for geographical information and the excellent maps included in the volume. It has been always a matter of great gratification to me that you have adopted my views with reference to the Sātavāhanas and at last given them, in a standard history of India the appellation by which they call themselves...rather than accept the doubtful description of them given by the late Purāṇas.
PROFESSOR NILAKANTA SASTRI.-Your excellent Ancient History of India. I have been using it on every conceivable occasion.
SITARAM KOHLI, LAHORE,-I have immensely liked your book "Political History of Ancient India."
C. S. SRINIVASACHARI, SOUTH INDIA.-Our author rightly holds the balance between the views of Pargiter which would give excessive value to Kshatriya tradition whose date allowed of manipulation to serve dynastic ends and the value of Vedic tradition whose two strong points are its priority of date and freedom from textual corruption.
W. CHARLES DE SILVA, COLOMBO.-I have the greatest pleasure to express my high appreciation of your very valuable and learned article (Part I of the Political History).
PROFESSOR E. WASHBURN HOPKINS.-It is a fine augury for Indian scholarship when native scholars of the first rank take seriously in hand the great
